A burst of solar wind triggered a planet-wide heatwave in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, say astronomers at the University in Reading, UK. The hot region, which had a temperature of over 750 K, ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

The world's largest solar telescope in Hawaii has produced its first image using a new instrument that took 15 years to build ...

From your WhatsApp messages to your work emails, it can sometimes feel like emoji are everywhere you look. But tonight, a ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...